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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a genus of Diatomaceæ, in which the frustules are connected together by their angles, forming a zigzag chain, and the valves composing them only meet at the edges without overlapping. There are about a dozen species, found on submerged plants and stones.
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